A pioneering female in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and its oldest retiree were yesterday honoured by the Association of Past Members of the JCF during a special ceremony to celebrate their birthdays. Iris Tulloch, 88, former superintendent of police,
Fed up with the number of senseless killings in the constituency of Central Kingston which have left their students traumatised, several teachers yesterday journeyed from the Holy Family Primary School to the Jamaica Teachers' Association headquarters on Church Street, crying
Four days to go! "My relationship with my mother was always intense and often traumatic, and I see now that it, along with my experience of the power struggle between men and women, as observed first in my parents' troubled
The Ministry of Education yesterday conceded that it made a mistake when it decided against recommending the Scotiabank Jamaica Foundation Scholarship to the student who had the highest score in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) last year.
Thousands of job applicants turned out at the headquarters of the Christian Fellowship Outreach Ministry in St Andrew yesterday morning, hoping to snatch a place among the 200 being recruited as warders for the Department of Correctional Services....
THE ABOLITION of criminal libel has been included in a list of recommendations for modernising the country's defamation laws. The report of the Justice Hugh Small Committee which contains the recommendations was laid in the House of Representatives yesterday....
Dr Luis Palau, an international Christian evangelist, has charged religious leaders to stage fun-filled functions to attract more young people. Palau was speaking with The Gleaner during a reception held in his honour at the Hilton Kingston hotel in New
People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller has rejected claims that the party was in disarray. Simpson Miller was responding to questions from journalists as the party launched the celebration of its 70th anniversary at its Old Hope Road
Workers at a wildlife rehabilitation centre outside Edmonton worked to save a handful of oil-coated ducks Wednesday while environmentalists and officials with the Alberta government and Syncrude argued about who is responsible for the latest black mark against the province's
Canadians trying to file their tax returns using Netfile have had their deadline extended from midnight Wednesday to May 6 due to problems with the Canada Revenue Agency's website.
The death of a 19-year-old man whose body was found Saturday in front of a home in Edmonton's university area was not due to any criminal wrongdoing, police said Wednesday.
The web's leading gossip outlet, TMZ.com, today published the name and photo of a 14-year-old boy whom the site reported has allegedly been the victim of a sex crime.
A shot-by-shot analysis of the leaked second trailer of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" reveals that there might be an alien spaceship in the story.
IBM has acquired InfoDyne, a provider of a market data delivery platform and feed handler, and plans to integrate its products with several IBM WebSphere programs. "The addition of InfoDyne's capabilities strengthens IBM's product portfolio in providing an exchange-neutral platform,
The Security Traders Association has released a special report on U.S. market structure to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "We thought it was an appropriate time to comment in the post-Reg NMS world and with the collateral changes it has
